Science and Wishful Thinking

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Science and Wishful Thinking
Original language description
People should be equal but sadly they are not. Despite of our wishes, our ambitions, people differ in many ways. Some are stronger, some are smarter, some are prettier and some are richer and so on. Though we know this sometimes we pretend that this is not the case. Wishful thinking is common in many areas of our ordinary life and science is not an exemption. Even there people make decisions, research plans, applications according to their wishes and ambitions and sometimes further more against evidence. But science based on wishes rather than on evidence is not a good science and such science could be even harmful. In 1978 Bernard David Davis (1978) presented problem of wishful thinking in science as the moralistic fallacy, a problem of derivation ?is? from ?ought to? (Matt Ridley (1998) called this problem a reverse naturalistic fallacy). Davis and others (Pinker, 2003) showed some examples of this problem and they pointed out the harm which can be done if this occur.
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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